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Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.
When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.
it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.
They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.
Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.
Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.
In that moment, there was no place for doubt. I was sitting with the supreme being. I had always sat beside her. She was inside of me.
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.
We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives
As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.
We need to lay hold on the feelings and try to control them to keep us from getting into a circumstance that leads to sinful behavior.
In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.
For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.
As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
Fear is a ... it's a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they're never afraid of themselves.
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.
Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.
It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.
After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.
We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.
I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.
What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.
After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.
One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.
Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.
Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
No one is going to be powerful in their ministry if they are hiding something that they are afraid people will find out at any moment.
Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.
I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.
The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.
To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.
Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love